[Nipy-devel] FIAC data

[Fernando Perez]

On 10/3/06, Cindee Madison <cindeem at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like Matthews idea as the intial download is quite long...
> I can easily make/compress my Ecat sample data to reduce its size
> significantly...
>
> Can we also have a repository of sample data for users to test URL etc
> and keep it on the scipy server?

Not that anyone asked for my opinion ... :)  How about keeping the
standard download really tight, so that test() works with toy tests
(for those which require external datasets), and then having
test(level=10) use the extra files?  You could have a simple check in
that level of tests which prints a message if the extra datafiles are
not found and indicates what the download URL and install procedure
should be, in case the user wants to run a full test suite.

Most users may be happy enough by checking the basic suite, and
developers only need to keep a copy of this extra data once on their
system, instead of carrying in every checkout they ever make.

If you go this route, it's worth choosing a good, stable URL for the
long-term, since this location is likely to develop over time into a
large and widely use repository for data, tests and examples, and that
URL will be hard-coded in the docs and code.

Cheers,

f